OFF TO THE SEA.
ESCAPE OF SEA LION
CAPTURED IN TIME'
(by telegraph—press association.i AUCKLAND, Aug. 29. A young sea lion which escaped from the zoo was recaptured m Whan Creek, making for the sea, by Frank Mullins, one of a number of returned soldiers engaged on earthwork. Another hundred yards and the animal would have been ready to bid farewell
to New Zealand. As Mullins approached the sea lion tried to bite his leg and barked like a dog. Mullins holding it fast by the tail, dragged it ashore. It took eight men to lift it- into a, dray.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 August 1924, Page 9
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100OFF TO THE SEA. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 29 August 1924, Page 9
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